Yep, I turned 45 over the weekend. Luckily I took off to the mountains for a few days so I didn’t have to concentrate on being almost 50! I mean, really? 45? OK, so I’m not doing well with the idea of aging but thank god I feel super young. We just got back from staying up at June Lake and we hiked and we went fishing and I felt pretty dang good. We drove up on Friday late afternoon and drove home this morning so 5 nights and 4 days in total heaven. The drive today took about 6 hours. All in all it was a fabulous trip. We took Trey and Tommy and left our little huntress Kaylee with the grandparents.
Here the kids are relaxing on the porch of our cabin.
As with all glorious vacations there is always one tragedy. On our last full day in paradise my old dog Trey decided to jump down an embankment near a creek and unsuspectingly wrestle up a yellow jacket nest. They began to immediately attack him. If you follow my blog then you know he has a compromised immune system and just got through cancer surgery 2 months ago. I went into major mom mode and jumped down and took off my hat and began swatting fearlessly at them to get away from my baby. Trey was paralyzed with pain and fear and just stood there getting stung over and over again and I then started to get stung and began screaming. Ryan then jumped down and picked up our 110lb Trey and swung him back up on the trail and I quickly followed. We ran as fast as we could and the mad hive dwellers were still after us! My head was hurting so bad, the little buggers were caught in my hair! Having hair extensions didn’t help either, they just got stuck in my hair and stayed in there stinging me over and over again on my scalp. Fuck it hurt. It hurt for about 6 hours. Ryan got stung in his arm pit several times and on his back. Trey got stung on his face and Tommy our street smart hound took off the minute the drama started happening and kept a safe distance so he came out stinger free, lucky dude. Well, after taking some Benedryl and ibuprofen and a glass of wine and two pieces of See’s candy and laying around for 6 hours I was good to go. We all got ready and went fishing and hiking to end our last day to catch our last sunset in beautiful June Lake.
Little fuckers
